The Forward Party has joined the board of the Coalition for Free & Open Elections (COFOE). COFOE was formed in 1985 as a loose coalition of most of the nation’s nationally-organized minor parties, as well as other groups that support better ballot access, such as Fairvote and Independent Voting.
This is the time when minor party activists ought to be working to find sponsors for bills to improve the ballot access laws. Legislators decide which bills to introduce, for the most part, in the last three months of even-numbered years. COFOE hopes to assist individuals with this work.
Bills to improve the ballot access laws have passed since 1985, without the benefit of lawsuits, in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The last such bill was in Alaska in 2022, when the legislature eased the number of registrants for party status.
I can’t vote for a man who doesn’t wear a tie.
Andrew Yang has tiny Asian penis.
EQUAL ballot access for partisan offices in how many States ???
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The concept of equal ballot access doesn’t work well in the U.S., where the tradition is that large parties nominate in government-administered primaries. Right off the bat, there is an ambiguity about the ballot access rules for candidates running in a primary, compared to candidates running only in the general election. If the number of signatures is made equal for both types of candidate, already it is unequal because a primary petition obviously must have an earlier petition deadline. Also if the state has closed primaries, then the number of people who can sign for a primary candidate is restricted to party members, so if the numerical requirement is equal for both, then the general election petition is easier because more people are eligible to sign.
Mr. Winger. Good points. I agree. If you were appointed to straighten out the ballot access inequality on a federal level with federal authority. What would you enact? Should ballot access qualification(s) remain in the hands of the states? Also, should the USA have proportional representation in government like other country’s?
On their website, the Forward Party promotes:
-Ranked choice voting
-“Final Five” non-partisan primaries (similar to Top-Two in California)
-Independent redistricting commissions (to prevent gerrymandering)
No promotion is made of reducing petition signatures, easing petition deadlines, easing the definition of a party for auto-qualifying, or other *ballot access* measures. Their core platform is about voter choice instead.
As the Forward Party works on getting itself on ballots in various states, it will learn about the problems.
Bigdaddy, I supported the bills in Congress to set a ceiling on ballot access for federal office. That ceiling was one-tenth of 1% of the last vote cast for statewide office. For US House it was 1,000 signatures. The bill was introduced in 9 sessions of congress. Ron Paul introduced it the last 4 times. Before that it was John Conyers of Michigan and then Tim Penny of Minnesota. The whole reason I started Ballot Access News in 1985 was to publicize the Conyers bill, introduced for the first time in 1985. For the first year, the name of Ballot Access News was “HR 2320 News”. Then it expanded to cover news about ballot access generally, in 1986.
Winger supports rigging elections.
I noticed that the Forward party has the same slogan as the Unity party. « Not left nor right but forward. » Maybe some of these small centrist parties can get together before State & National elections. Ex: Alliance, Unity, Forward and yes Libertarian parties.
Forward Party is a commie group run by commie Yang.
Each election is NEW — except for the number of actual voters in an election area at the previous election.
EQUAL is in 14-1 Amdt — NOT *unequal* –
MUCH too difficult for the many useless so-called lawyers and judges to note since 1868 — repeat 1868.
Can the 2020s cult minor parties detect EQUAL in 14-1 Amdt any better than the LP loser so-called lawyers since 1970 ???
SEPARATE IS NOT EQUAL — BROWN V BD OF ED 1954 — A NOW MERE 68 YEARS AGO.
https://independentmediainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Voting-Systems.pdf
How easy/hard to subvert results to get POWER ???
How many FELONS at work 24/7 about elections in 2022 and 2024 ???
Gerrymander area elections ALL rigged—- regardless of any voting system stuff.
How much rigging of exec/judic elections ???
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To hell with these commies.